Allotmenters

Neglected mine over the winter with one thing and another, and I’m a bit late to the game this year, so got the weedkiller out 2 weeks ago and rotivated the life out of it today.

Stuck some different tatties in each , and the middle meshed bit will be tidied and holes burned in, for low maintenance onions & beetroot.

Will be moving down the plot and getting some mange tout and other bits in there, but undecided on what.

What else are folk growing?

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I seem to be growing mostly thistles, along with couch grass and some mares tail. Got some potatoes and onions in between, but everything else seems to have been eaten by the birds, slugs etc.
I spent an hour of so weeding today, until the rain soaked through my clothes. I was as muddy and wet when I got home as if I’d been out riding.

Mine’s coming along, had it almost exactly a year.

Hs, couch grass is evil. I took about a dozen Mondeo-loads to the tip last year.

Huws, that’s a nice looking plot. What’s the mahoosive tree?

In the middle, in front of the shed? It’s a fig tree, I had a great crop off it last year.
The one right at the back is a plum tree, unfortunately on my neighbours plot.

Looks good. We don’t have an allotment, just a veg plot in the garden. Most excited by the toms, peppers, chillis and aubergines but they do best in the greenhouse and it’s a bit late to start now. How about salad leaves, rocket, radishes and peas for their tops, that you can grow quickly and then replace with overwintering stuff? I also like dwarf French beans for their ease to grow and they’re prolific. You could also try courgettes or summer squash if you get started indoors. We’ve also got mange tout, onions and potatoes, but also plenty of different brassicas, though they need netting.

Just had the new plot since Oct last year but managed to get in
Rubbarb
Raspberry’s
Loganberry’s
Blackberries
A few fruit trees
Gooseberries red and green
Tayberries
Spuds
Peas
Sweet spuds
Broad beans yum yum
Onions red and white
Garlic
Various herbs
A grape vine
Japanese tayberry
Loads of comfery and rhubarb
Beetroot
Runner beans
Yellow beans
Courgettes various
And lots of weeds grrrrr

Yes, getting soft fruit established is great, real treat. Mikeypies I would be really interested in how your sweet potatoes get on.

They are in a cheapo poly tunnel 9′ 20′ so finger crossed , hopefully the tunnel will increase the growing season a monthish each end, next year we plan on having plenty high value crops growing and stuff which is not so mainstream

we took over a run down allotment this february – it hadnt been worked for nearly a year….

Put up a shed

dug the whole thing over, Laid some beds, covered path with membrane and raided the newly chopped and chipped windfall trees to create the woodchip paths…..

Built a poly tunnel….

and planted:

tatties

carrots, parsnips and beetroot..

onions and shallots..

beans n peas

pear and apple trees around the border, along with the blackcurrants, raspberries.

polytunnel to get tomatoes, peppers, chillies and cucumbers, the beans section to get sweetcorn in the centre.

still a work in progress but loving it.

How’s it turning out then for folk?

The bean-wigwam has taken a beating over last week.

…but it’s throwing out beans! (and a couple of random marrowfat in there 🙂 )

Been looking after my brothers for the past week while he’s on holiday. Didn’t think I could ever get sick of courgettes, onion and runner beans.

I always grow the stuff that is expensive in shops, or taste worse when it’s not super fresh. For example soft fruits are brilliant , onions and potatos less so in my view.

Broad beans can be grown almost all year round as they can handle the cold and a nitrogen fixing . Asparagus if you have space and the time

I have eaten far too many beetroot in the last few weeks, huge gluts of beans and onions too.
I love my allotment.

I’m laying off the beetroot for a while to let my bowels settle back down.

I must have had over 20 in the last fortnight! So sweet and delicious. My onions were disappointing size wise but pack a powerful punch.

Home grown beetroot is the best. Must say, a little sick of courgette, as is the way at this time of year!

I’ve had the use of a polytunnel this year, tomatoes going great guns, also got butternut squash in there currently about the size of my fist.
I tried sweet potatoes last year and they only got to about thumb size. Trying again, planted them a bit earlier, got some in buckets, some in the ground in the polytunnel and some covered outside to see what happens.
Growing babycorn again, was successful outside last year. Lots of chillies in the tunnel now, not sure what I’m going to do with them all yet. Also just planted some more spuds which should supply new potatoes for Christmas. Peas have been great again this year, got loads in the freezer.